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Twitter Suspends Indie Journalists

posted by LaminatorX on Monday November 10 2014, @03:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the better-than-detention dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Atheist vlogger Thunderf00t reports that Jordan Owen, Slade Villena, and Mykeru were "all suspended from twitter for no reason." Jordan Owen is the co-producer of the documentary The Sarkeesian Effect, a critique of the methods of controversial vlogger Anita Sarkeesian. Mykeru is the producer of The Block Bot and the Dumbification of the Beeb, a critique of the BBC Newsnight segment "Talking to the Twitter Trolls and those Who Study them". Slade Villena is a former writer for Gamasutra and the founder of indie game developer Rogue Star Games.

Thunderf00t himself was suspended from Twitter for two weeks in September for unclear reasons. At that time Twitter had also banned the account of "The Camera Lady", the researcher for a video series accusing award-winning developer Phil Fish and the Independent Games Festival of racketeering.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 10 2014, @10:31AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 10 2014, @10:31AM (#114473)

    The difference is that all the services you mentioned are sending supposedly private messages to selected persons, while Twitter messages are public.

    It's like an event host will likely not get problems if he doesn't stop you from telling your explicit sexual fantasies in private to a friend on the event in a way no one not involved can hear it, but there will be a huge outcry if he doesn't stop you from doing the same publicly on stage.